Asia Private Equity Weekly News, July 29, 2013

HONG KONG, July 29 News and developments in Asia
private equity from Reuters News for the week ending July 26.

JULY 26

MALAYSIA'S STATE pension fund will invest half a billion
euros ($660 million) in industrial property in Germany and
office space in France, according to sources familiar with the
deals, signalling growing appetite for high-yielding property
assets as Europe's main economies show signs of recovery.

MEIJI YASUDA Life Insurance Co said it has agreed to buy a
15 percent stake in Thai Life Insurance Co as Japanese insurers
step up their presence in Southeast Asia.

CHINA'S $500 billion sovereign wealth fund, China Investment
Corp, returned to profit growth in 2012, citing growing
traction in the global recovery at the end of the year and a
steady improvement in risk asset prices.

KKR & CO LP said that its second-quarter earnings
declined by 74 percent as a lower appreciation in its private
equity funds overshadowed a quadrupling in the cash it received
from the profits its funds generated.

U.S. LAWMAKERS are concerned a Chinese company's planned
$4.7 billion acquisition of pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc
could affect the safety and availability of heparin, a
blood-thinner widely used in heart surgery and kidney dialysis
that is derived from pig intestines.

CLSA CAPITAL Partners, the alternative asset management arm
of CLSA, said it has invested 550 million rupees ($9.33 million)
through its ARIA Investment Partners IV L.P. funds in Luminous
Water Technologies Private Ltd, part of the SAR Group. ()

JULY 25

JAPAN'S AEON Co Ltd and state-owned China Resources
Enterprise Ltd are among the suitors considering bids
for the Hong Kong supermarket business being sold by billionaire
Li Ka-shing, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

JULY 24

NATIONALISED FRANCO-Belgian banking group Dexia
has set GCS Capital a July 30 deadline to conclude its planned
380-million-euro ($502.3 million) purchase of Dexia Asset
Management, after which the sale will be cancelled.

SUMITOMO MITSUI Banking Corp said it has agreed to buy
Societe Generale's private banking business in Japan
for an undisclosed sum.

KKR SAID that William Sonneborn, who heads its corporate
credit and equity investments and is chief executive of its
publicly traded specialty finance company KFN, would
step down to pursue a new challenge.

JULY 22

KKR HAS sealed its first deal in Indonesia, agreeing to buy
a 9.5 percent stake in food company PT Tiga Pilar Sejahtera Food
Tbk, the two companies said in a joint statement.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

SINGAPORE STATE investor Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd
said it has named Lim Boon Heng as its next chairman, giving the
non-executive role to a former government minister as the firm's
long-serving chairman retires next month.

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